Think without Language?

[F107plus5]

It always amazes me how the minutest whiff of an isolated substance can bring up a vivid recollection of an entire and complex event including the proper response to reply to that particular situation.

....water dribbling will always make me run to......

 

[LawnGnome]

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Originally Posted by F107plus5 /img/forum/go_quote.gif It always amazes me how the minutest whiff of an isolated substance can bring up a vivid recollection of an entire and complex event including the proper response to reply to that particular situation. ....water dribbling will always make me run to......

Hahaha, When I first read that I thought you were talking about snorting drugs or something.

 

[daycart1]

Oboy, a philosophical discussion!

One technical philosophical move is to distinguish "propositional" thought from non-propositional thought. The first requires something like a human language, the second not. It is plausible (though controversial) to say that some infra-human species have non-propositional thought. And if one accepts that, it seems to follow that SOME human thought is also non-propositional.